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<FONT SIZE="+2" COLOR="#00AEFF"><STRONG><EM>To the Virgins, Make Much of Time</EM></STRONG></FONT><BR>
<FONT SIZE="+1"><STRONG>Robert Herrick</STRONG></FONT>
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<BR>
Old time is still a-flying,<BR>
And this same flower that smiles today,<BR>
To-morrow will be dying.
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,<BR>
The higher he's a-getting,<BR>
The sooner will his race be run,<BR>
And nearer he's to setting.
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That age is best which is the first,<BR>
When youth and blood are warmer;<BR>
But being spent, the worse and worst<BR>
Times still succeed the former.
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Then be not coy, but use your time,<BR>
and while ye may, go marry;<BR>
For having lost just once your prime,<BR>
You may for ever tarry.
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